Re: --packages-list debian-science problems

2011-03-16 Thread carolus
On 3/16/2011 12:32 PM, carolus wrote: On 3/16/2011 11:13 AM, Ben Armstrong wrote: LB_TASKS="desktop laptop" Instead you should have: LB_TASKS="gnome-desktop desktop laptop" (or lxde-desktop if that is your preference). Thanks, I'll try that. Yes, that worked. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: live-boot from a jffs partition

2011-03-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 03/16/2011 03:06 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote: > You just need it to be clean so that, e.g. if mtd-utils > is not present, nothing breaks. Er, more precisely if mdtinfo is not present ... but you get the gist of what I mean, right? Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian

Re: --packages-list debian-science problems

2011-03-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 03/16/2011 02:32 PM, carolus wrote: > I'm just learning my way around debian, and I got the impression from > http://wiki.debian.org/tasksel that "desktop" would default to gnome. It does, normally, but since live-build supports multiple possible desktops, it preseeds the appropriate variables

Re: live-boot from a jffs partition

2011-03-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 03/16/2011 02:25 PM, David Kuehling wrote: > That's an interesting question. I guess jffs is designed in a way that > makes it quite difficult to detect (without scanning the full > partition). There is the 'mtdinfo' utility from 'mtd-utils' package, > which can be used on the mtdNN device cor

Re: --packages-list debian-science problems

2011-03-16 Thread carolus
On 3/16/2011 11:13 AM, Ben Armstrong wrote: LB_TASKS="desktop laptop" Instead you should have: LB_TASKS="gnome-desktop desktop laptop" (or lxde-desktop if that is your preference). Thanks, I'll try that. I'm just learning my way around debian, and I got the impression from http://wiki.deb

Re: live-boot from a jffs partition

2011-03-16 Thread David Kuehling
> "Ben" == Ben Armstrong writes: > On 03/16/2011 11:45 AM, David Kuehling wrote: >> Going over the live-boot scripts, I just noticed that it uses 'blkid' >> to detect file-systems, with no way to override the result: >> >> scripts/live (check_dev()): >> >> fstype=$(get_fstype "${devname}")

Re: live-boot from a jffs partition

2011-03-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 03/16/2011 11:45 AM, David Kuehling wrote: > Going over the live-boot scripts, I just noticed that it uses 'blkid' to > detect file-systems, with no way to override the result: > > scripts/live (check_dev()): > > fstype=$(get_fstype "${devname}") > > scripts/live-helper: > > get_fstype

Re: --packages-list debian-science problems

2011-03-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 03/16/2011 09:29 AM, carolus wrote: > On 3/16/2011 3:54 AM, Ben Armstrong wrote: > >> You have to specify which desktop, e.g. gnome-desktop or lxde-desktop, >> as live-build does specific configuration tasks for each, e.g. autologin. > > But that is impossible with the current web page design,

live-boot from a jffs partition

2011-03-16 Thread David Kuehling
Hi, i'm planning to use live-boot together with multistrap to build firmware images for an embedded debian application. The only storage available are a few 100 mb of mtd flash. So we plan to use a jffs partition on mtd, containing the /live directory with a squashfs image. This way flash isn

Re: --packages-list debian-science problems

2011-03-16 Thread carolus
On 3/16/2011 3:54 AM, Ben Armstrong wrote: You have to specify which desktop, e.g. gnome-desktop or lxde-desktop, as live-build does specific configuration tasks for each, e.g. autologin. But that is impossible with the current web page design, is it not? There seems to be no way to build a w

Re: --packages-list debian-science problems

2011-03-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 16/03/11 01:49 AM, carolus wrote: > Rather than try with the whole 3.1 GB debian-science package, I tried > the following to see if it would create a working system: > > http://live-build.debian.net/build/20110315.164918.390815150/ > > LB_BINARY_IMAGES="iso-hybrid" > LB_DISTRIBUTION="squeeze"